Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-10
EARTHQUAKE BOOM.
Volcano On Hearst's Ranch
i'm Mexico.
WATER sP0urs WONDERFULLY.
Murder and Suicide During the
Momeut of the Earth
quake.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
Ell PAso. Texas, May 9.--Lieutenant
Britton Davis, son EFF Ex.Governor
DAVIS, OF this State, and manager of The
Corraiitos mines. sends by special cour-
Ter letter to Judge Crosby, Of thfs
city, who is President Of the CorraIitos
Mining Company, giving some startling
news OF the earthquake in the interior
OF Mexico. Following is copy of the
letter:
"At $50 p. M, May Sd, sharp
earthquake shock was felt here. which
has been followed at intervals by other
shocks yesterday and last night. shell
don, Bonnie, Grosbeck and myself were
down on one of the Leon mines. five
miles from the general mining
headquarters, when the first shock
came. We thought the
NINE WAS cAvING IN
On us and we left in hurry. On get
ting out we concluded that the powder
house here had exploded (which i
some distance) and rushed back to find
the people in state eff great excitement.
Hardly had this excitement subsided
when two men were shot dead. A Young
miner had shot his companion and CON-
mitted suicide. This will delay me, az I
am on the jury; mean while startling
tumors ere arriving from Corralitos.
McGrew writes that active
VOLCANOES ARE IN ACTION
Fifty miles southwest af Casas Grandsu.
This must be near the reported volcano.
The smoke is dense from the same
cause. A man sent out to Corraiitoa
last night reports seeing large fire to
the southwest OF Casas Grandes. Wallis
sends word from Corralitos that epring
broke out on Romos, half way from
Corralitos to the Ramers road. This
spring, up to the last account, was
throwing stream as large as man's
body to the height of windmill, TWENTY
five to thirty feet. 1t is spring formerly
known as Ojo DeDer Pedro. The re-
ported volcano is said to be near the
ranch of Senator Hearst"
ABOUT THE SAME THING.
Ell Paso, Tex, May 9.--Word has
Just been received here from Lieutenant
Britton Davis at Corralitas, Old Mexico.
about $50 miles from El Paso, that an
active volcano has broken out fifty miIes
south of Casas Grandes. Springs have
burst out where water was never seen
before.
THE EARTH RIPPED UNTIMELY.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 9.--The Cnfls
Tucson special of tonight says: K. J.
Kerr has returned from Tres Alamos on
the San Pedro, to which place he was to
deliver cattle to tho San Pedro Cattle
Company. He reports an earthquake
tissure not less than twenty-five miles
long, that extends from short distance
below Benson to fifteen miles below Tres
Alamos. AT the surface the fissure is
varied in width from six to eighteen
inches. On one side the earth has
sunk several inches. AT places along
the crack the water has burst forth, but
afterward ceased flowing. The crack at
many places is still open to depth of
several feet from above. At the Empire
Ranch on the Sonocita, seventy miles
South of here a fissure is also reported.
Reliable information states that when
the earth opened the water aud mud was
thrown to great height. All one spring
in that vicinity went dry; two others
doubled their volume of water, but on
the cessation of the disturbance the dry
spring recommended flowing, and in the
other two the wafer diminished from
the former state.